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Thursday, 3 October 2013

Mental Clause As Metaphorical Realisation Of Probability

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 614):

What’s happened here is that there has been
a realignment in the realisational
relationship between semantics and grammar. … a modalised proposition is
realised as if it was a sequence, by a clause nexus of projection. The effect is that the modality and the
modalised proposition are separated, each being realised by a clause in its own
right…